Source: Keats, John. "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n. d. Web. 24 June 2011. Determine the meter of this poem. Which sentence describes the metrical pattern?

The meter is iambic with 8 feet in the first 3 lines; the last line has 4 feet.

The meter is iambic with 4 feet in the first 3 lines; the last line has 2 feet.

The poem is written in blank verse.

The poem is written in free verse.

Read the poem below and answer the question that follows.

“La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad”

by John Keats

O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,

Alone and palely loitering?

The sedge has withered from the lake,

And no birds sing.

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,

So haggard and so woe-begone?

The squirrel’s granary is full,

And the harvest’s done.

I see a lily on thy brow,

With anguish moist and fever-dew,

And on thy cheeks a fading rose

Fast withereth too.

I met a lady in the meads

Full beautiful—a faery’s child,

Her hair was long, her foot was light,

And her eyes were wild.

I made a garland for her head,

And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;

She looked at me as she did love,

And made sweet moan.

I set her on my pacing steed,

And nothing else saw all day long,

For sidelong would she bend, and sing

A faery’s song.

She found me roots of relish sweet,

And honey wild, and manna-dew,

And sure in language strange she said—

“I love thee true.”

She took me to her elfin grot,

And there she wept and sighed full sore,

And there I shut her wild wild eyes

With kisses four.

And there she lullèd me asleep,

And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!—

The latest dream I ever dreamt

On the cold hill side.

I saw pale kings and princes too,

Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;

They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci

Thee hath in thrall!”

I saw their starved lips in the gloam,

With horrid warning gapèd wide,

And I awoke and found me here,

On the cold hill’s side.

And this is why I sojourn here,

Alone and palely loitering,

Though the sedge is withered from the lake,

And no birds sing.

Source: Keats, John. “La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad.” Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 24 June 2011.

Determine the meter of this poem. Which sentence describes the metrical pattern?

The meter is iambic with 8 feet in the first 3 lines; the last line has 4 feet.

The meter is iambic with 4 feet in the first 3 lines; the last line has 2 feet.

The poem is written in blank verse.

The poem is written in free verse.

The poem is written in free verse.

Explanation:

According to the poem given, the poet writes in free verse.

A poem written in free verse is a type of poem which is inconsistent with its rhyme patterns and rhythm, uses repetition, alliteration, and scattered internal rhymes.

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